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and it is unreasonable to expect a farmer to vote for a congressman or senator who favors this great nation ■ al wrong. In a nutshell, we observe (for we don’t belong to the order, and, there fore, don’t know), that the Farmers’ Union stands for the farmer’s life, liberty and happiness, and ip their purposes the Gwinnett Journal bids the order Godspeed.—Gwinnett Jour nal. THE MINORITY LEADER SLINGS MUD ALL OVER MISSIS SIPPI. Last Saturday at Yazoo City in the presence of an assembled multi tude, John Sharp Williams proved to the world what we already know —that he is an unappreciative, bigot ed, all-wise-in-bis-own-estima tion, narrow-minded mugwump. Af ter he had defeated his opponent, and after Vardaman had said, “I am for the nominee, and I hope he will make a great United States Sena tor,” a great man like John proceed ed to unload himself of more vile and slimy mud than was ever thrown at Vardaman and his friends by the most unprincipled partisans. He said things which he did not dare say before the election. He said: “Few realize how grave an issue the late senatorial contest became. It was grave for Mississippi and for the South. You have a right to con gratulate yourselves upon the fact that Mississippi has again gone dem ocratic.” There were very few who realized it, John. In fact, nobody but you. What was the issue, John? The re peal of the fifteenth amendment, wasn’t it? We heard you say at Union that you would go into a hos pital and have your right arm am putated to get the fifteenth amend ment repealed. Then before you sat down you said you would not open your mouth in congress about it. Yes, it was very grave. In fact, you were too close to the grave to be comforta ble. John, how can you, with all your boasted college degrees, and your learning and refinement, and especially since you have become a total abstainer, stand up before Mis sLsippians who have done so much for you who was born in luxury in another state; how can you have the unblushing gall to insinuate that our beloved governor and those who sup ported him are not democrats? John, do you remember how you acted at the St. Louis convention? John, if you had a little more brains, and a little less gall and education you" might become a majority leader in stead of a minority leader. A school boy will get off of a licked “kid” when he hollers “ ’nough,” but if you ever were taught any fighting manners, your egotistical gall over balances your 'better nature. You remember, you ridiculed and abused Bryan at St. Louis .when he was down. Now you throw your rottenest mud after you have beaten your op ponent and after he acknowledged that you were the nominee. Jonn, you ought to be a man. John says, again: “When I first entered into the campaign I thought it was a case of friendly competition between two democrats.” Everybody else thought so, too, John, and you know it, and you know it now, but you made that speech to send to your republican friends in the north, who thought you were so gloriously popular in Mississippi. Then you say: “The result shows I was mistaken.” Isn’t he cheeky, to conclude that if he had been run ning against a democrat he would have received a greater majority? If cheek and unadulterated gall is what you want, and the Williams men say that is their objection to Vardaman, we have it in abundance in John. He says there should be a law requiring every voter to say he is a democrat before he votes in a primary. John, are you afraid to risk your case again with all the white men of the state? Anyway, if it were left to you to say what a democrat was, you would say it was a man who voted for the minority leader, for you said you thanked God the state had gone democratic again in electing you. John, you are a sight. John, your insinuations against the Farmers ’ Union are a little more than we can stand. We know some of these people and they are as good as you are, no matter what they read Some of them voted for you, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. We do not suppose, however, you have ever been ashamed in your life. You say when the Union men have their eyes opened there will be no danger. Those we know already have their eyes open, and are working for their own advantage, whether it is for Watson, Vardaman or Williams. John you should not cast any reflections on the farmers. Good-by, John. —Mis- sissippi Reporter-Index. SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE WEATHER BUREAU. Hon. Martin V. Calvin, in the At lanta Journal, writes as follows: “When Mr. Alexander Hamilton Stephens entered congress, Mr. Toombs and Mr. Cobb gave him friendly counsel —advising him to avoid Prof. Espy. “ ’Who is this Prof. Espy?’ “ ‘Oh, he is a crazy Frenchman who affects to believe he can predict the weather which will prevail in the District of Columbia in a given twenty-four hours.’ “ ‘Why, that interests me,’ re plied Mr. Stephens. “ ‘Now, Aleck,’ said Mr. Toombs, ‘I urge you to be careful —steer clear of Espy or he will straightway bring you into a circle of laughter. You are a new man. He will instantly pounce upon you. If you give ear to him a minute, he will fatigue your indignation.’ “ ‘Thank you, gentlemen,’ said Mr. Stephens, ‘I will have an eye out for Prof. Espy.’ “ ‘No, Alex; it will not be al all necessary for you to have “an eye out” for him, he will have two eyes busy in search of you.’ “Mr. Stephens had barely taken the oath of office as a, representative, and been assigned his seat in the house, when a page handed him a card from Professor Espy, who craved a brief interview at ndjoifrnment. “To this Mr. Stephens readily con sented. for he was anxious to talk with the professor on a subject in which he then felt, and during his WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. life felt and manifested, a profound interest. “At adjournment, he found Espy in the cloak room. “The professor unfolded his plans with deep earnestness. Mr. Steph ens saw they were perfectly practi cable, whereupon he bade the profes sor call on him’ at his hotel at a certain hour the next day. “Mr. Stephens went vigorously to work. In a few days he had obtained $2,500 from the Smithsonian Insti tute with which to aid Professor Espy in putting into action his sharply de fined ideas. “Professor Morse, of telegraph fame, lent the undertakini/his zealous co-operation, so Espy’s weather pre dictions for the District of Colum bia became an actuality. “When the session closed, Messrs. Stephens, Toombs and Cobb journey ed together homeward. Much of tho distance was by stage. One day the subject of conversation turned to the weather. Said Mr Stephens: “ ‘By the by, there has been, as you gentlemen know, a destructive drouth through Georgia and the Caro linas. A season of rain is at hand; for there was a storm central over Alabama —’ “ ‘Stop, stop!’ cried Messi’s. Cobb and Toombs. ‘Just what we told you. We counselled you against talking with that crazy Frenchman, and here you are tailring about a storm cen tral in Alabama’’ “ ‘Yes,’ said Mr. Stephens, calm ly, ‘a few days ago, a storm was cen tral in Alabama. It followed the line of the drouth. When we reach Wel don we shall find the river out of its banks. ’ “ ‘Stop, Alex!’ said Mr. Toombs, ‘don’t talk that way—you’ll bring yourself into disrepute. You will be looked upon as a vagarist!’ • “ ‘Very well,’ replied Mr. Steph ens. ‘wait until we reach Weldon and see for yourselves; wait until at Wel don we receive information from gia and the Carolinas.’ “Sure enough, when the distin guished party reached Weldon, the river was out of its banks and over the railroad track. Information showed that a storm, almost as de structive as the drouth whose wake it had followed, had swept through Georgia and the Carolinas.” WHY NOT SELL THE PHILIP PINES? This is not The Age-Herald’s par ticular and peculiar question, but it is the New York Herald’s. Our New York contemporary has a c»lumn each day in which individuals express their opinions, and the letters thus far re ceived by it show that public senti ment favors an early disposal of the archipelago that we have held nine years without bringing peace and con tentment to its millions of little brown people. The Malays have nothing in com mon with the distant Angb-Saxon country, and they never will have. They yearn fcr a release despite all our efforts to better their physical condition. We may be able to bring them many blessings, but we cannot make them Anglo-Saxons or fill their breasts with contentment. They have yearnings that are as natural as were those of this country in the days of 1776. Besides, what right have we to in dulge in colonies, when in 1776, we fought to get rid of colonial subjec tion ourselves? As the New York Herald says, “The sooner the Unit-\ ed States goes out of business as a colonial power the better for every body concerned.” The nomby-pambyists who say we cannot sell the Philippines forget that we bought the islands from Spain, paying $20,000,000 for them. What we had a right to buy for a price we certainly have a moral as well as a legal right to sell for a price. Placeholders in the Philip pines may say otherwise, but the mainland people are pretty solidly, it is pla.n, in favor of a sale of the Philippines at an early day. There would be more than one bidder if the islands were offered for sale. England wants them, and so does Germany, and so dees Japan. Even Holland and France might be come bidders. Let the islands be of fered to the country that will treat them best —to the country that best understands their population.—The Age-Herald. WHEN? WHEN? “It is idle to ask me not to prose cute criminals, rich or poor,” said Mr. Roosevelt in his Provincetown speech. Then why this endless talk ing? The way to prosecute is to prosecute. What single rich criminal has ISfr. Roosevelt convicted of violating the Anti-Trust law? Or even indicted? What single rich criminal is he going to prosecute? Harriman? If so, why did Mr. Roosevelt and his cabinet decide against such prosecution? Why did Mr. Roosevelt urge Gov. Dc-neen, of Illinois, not to proceed against Har riman for the Alton swindle? Why did Mr. Roosevelt emasculate the Interstate Commerce Commission’s report? W’hy did he not grant Mr. Kellogg’s request to begin the pros ecution of Harriman? Prosecute Harriman? Why months have passed since Harriman refused to answer questions before the In terstate Commerce Commission. The questions have not been answered. No attempt has been made to compel an answer. Judged by the standard of insurance risks, Harriman could plausibly pretend to be prosecution proof. Mr. Roosevelt is forever talking about the malefactors of great wealth whom he is going to punish, but the punishment is iuflicted in public speeches, not in court. Not a single Wall Street law-breaker has yet lost a day’s liberty on account of any thing the president has done. When will Mr. Roosevelt cease talk ing and begin to act? When will he stop prosecuting business and begin prosecuting the rich criminals he rails against?—N. Y. World. The Farmers’ Union has decided to establish at Barnesville a “School of Cotton,” in which farmers will be instructed how to classify and price the different grades of the staple. The Union promises to be one of the most useful farmers’ organizations that ever got busy.—Dawson News. PAGE SEVEN